Metallic hoop keeper



J. J. HEIM.

METALLIC HOOP'KEEPER.

(ModeL) Patented Feb.27,188-3.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH J. HEIM, OF EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLINOIS;

METALLIC HOOP KEEPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 273,076, dated February27, 1883.

Application filed April 8. 1882. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, J osEPH J. HEIM, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of East St. Louis, State of Illinois, have inventeda new and useful Metallic Hoop Keeper, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in fastening and keeping metallichoops confined to their respective places on barrels, kegs, and othervessels wherever metallic hoops are used; and the objects of myimprovements are, first, to provide metallic keepers for said purpose;second, to so construct and arrange said keepers that in driving thehoops tight on said barrels or other vessels over the surfaces of thekeepers the hoops will be confined in their respective places as thesame are driven, the

upper end of the keeper being driven over the edge of the hoops in thesame act of driving the hoops to their respective seats. I attain thisobject by the mechanical shape and arrangement of the keeper, asillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a frontelevation of the barrel A. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of a stave ofthe barrel A. Fig. 3 is a side view of the keeper Fig. 4 are views ofthe keepers B next the barrel A. Fig. 5 are views of the keepers B andhoops-G in their relative positions when driven, enlarged.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the stave of the barrel or other vessel A which is to be hooped thetang of the keeper B, on its face side, is driven at a suitable distancebelow the lower edge line of the hoop when seated, the upper end of thekeeper B extending a suitable distance above the upper edge of the hoopto insure sufficient length to turn over the hoop and clinch on theupper edge of hoop O in the act of driving said hoops O to theirrelative seats on the vessel. The keepers B, I make of any suitablemalleable metal and of length and width required, and applied in anynumber to each hoop as may be desired, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

.I do not claim, broadly, the following, viz: a metallic strip havingone or more points on its lower end, a shoulder to support the hoop, anda turned over edge at the top, the strip being adjustable upon the sideof the pail.

I am aware that barrels and other vessels hooped with metal hoops are ingeneral use, and do not claim any part thereof as my invention; but

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

l. The combination, with a stave vessel and a hoop thereon, of aflexible hoop-keeper connected directly to the stave by a deviceembedded therein to prevent endwise motion, and consisting also of aplain portion extending under thehoop, and an ppwardly projectingportion abutting against the chine side of the hoop, as shown anddescribed, whereby the hoop is kept and may be tightened and kept bydriving it over the keeper and further bending the projection thereof.

2. The combination, with a stave vessel and a hoop thereon, of aflexible hoop-keeper consisting of a portion which is embedded in thestave, a plain portion, over which the hoop can freely slide,extending'under the hoop, and a projecting portion abutting against thechine side of the hoop, as shown and described, whereby the hoop-is keptand may be tightened and kept by driving it over the keeper and furtherbending the projection thereof.

' JOSEPH J. HEIM. Witnesses:

E. J. EGGMANN, FERDINAND HEIM, Jr.

